Unifying ontological similarity measures: A theoretical and empirical investigation

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 861-875

  Cross, Valerie ^a   Yu, Xinran ^b   Hu, Xueheng ^c  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene; Information content; Mouse anatomy; NCIT human anatomy; Ontological similarity; Ontology; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ANATOMY; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MOUSE ANATOMY; ONTOLOGICAL SIMILARITIES; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

GENES; MAMMALS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84878575954     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2013.03.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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